Mechanical keyboards.I bought this 60$ heavy block of shit and I still regret it. I don't get how anyway can say mechanical keyboards "feel nice". I mean yeah, it feels DIFFERENT, but not noticeably BETTER in any way. If anything, it's actually slightly WORSE because you don't get nearly as much physical feedback on when the key you pressed was actually pressed (and I went with the Cherry Brown switches so go fuck yourself if you're gonna say I choose wrong type). Motherfuckers who say their word-per-minute rates increased after they switched to mechanical are lying sacks of dogshit and will burn in the 9th circle of hell for being shameless shills.After about a year of forcing myself to use it to justify my purchase, I switched back to my comfy 15$ Micro$hit curvy keyboard I've had for over 5 years.

>>64705359Idk what you don't like about it, anon, but I like my ryzen build. I will admit I had issues getting a stable memory overclock but after the initial teething issues I couldn't be happier with it.

>>64705451Code is fucking shit, though.If you're going with Micro$hit's IDEs (and I ain't gonna blame you, their dev tools are pretty much their only product that doesn't suck fat hairy blue screen of balls) at least go the full way and get Visual Studio. Even the Hippie Freeloader editions are excellent, and are much more comfortable to use than this Sublime ripoff.

>>64705479>and I went with the Cherry Brown switches so go fuck yourself if you're gonna say I choose wrong typeThat's not what brown is for. You want blue. Also, you are a retard. The key strokes are objectively smoother on any medium-tier mechanical keyboard when compared to almost any "high end" non-mechanical keyboard.

Everything /g/ has told me has been useful or true, except for 1 thing: the botnet can be escaped. That's simply not true. The fucking botnet is inescapable no matter what you do. No matter how much Pajeetware you put on your phone you're still fucked.

>>64705405This. >Just use libreoffice, it's just as good as office>Formatting of shit will be fucked up tried to load office shitIt's garbage. >That's Microsoft's fault damage controlIt doesn't matter. 99% of businesses use office, if you can't use their documents you're fucked. The world isn't changing for you.

>>64705639You're ugly and boring then. Girls care about 3 things>looks>charisma>money1 of those 3 will get you 7/10s and below. 2, and it's 8/10s and below.. all 3 and you've got yourself a 9/10, but only real chads can get a 10/10. It's simple math.

>>64705528No, you motherfucker.Just no.Working with GIMP is like working with two hands tied behind your back. And you don't even have the tools to use with those hands. So you hammer on the problem with your bare knuckles until you crash and fall because the ladder you were working from was designed and made by some libertarian nutjob basement dweller as an afterwork hobby project.GIMP simply lacks vital workflow features and functions to make it half as useful as photoshop can be. It's not just a matter of re-arranging the icons or remapping the keyboard shotcuts. It's really fundamental stuff like content-aware scaling, quick selection, selection edge refinement and heal brushing which either doesn't exist on GIMP or exists in really bad niggerified versions. And just like every single other Free™ piece of shitware I had the mispleasure to use, it crashes every 5 minutes (which is only moderately better than Inkscape's 4.5 minutes or Blender's 0.017 microseconds).

Even if we concede that GIMP is a viable alternative to Photoshop (it's not), what other possible Freedumbs software or software bundle can compare with the rest of Adobe's suite? What is the Linux equivalent of Premiere, InDesign, or, god-forbid, After Effects? Moreover, what other software bundle can compete with the sheer productivity-increasing INTEGRATION between all these aforementioned programs?

>>64705680Because it showed you have money. iPhones are pieces of shit, but still expensive. Now that you have a chinkdroid, women see you as a beta male with absolutely no money. So you're only going to score 5/10s and below unless you magically develop a great personality or handsome looks overnight.

>>64705685Sorry, I do real work like programming and don't draw pretty pictures all day. Last I checked developing software on windows is absolute ass and bloated to all hell. Mac's are proprietary and shit hardware wise so they're out the window. That leaves GNU/Linux, or BSD, or Minix.

/g/ told me Ubuntu was for noobs but as i aged with linux I realized Ubuntu and Debian were great for getting shit done. Want to get a Ripple Validator or Server up and running fast? Install Ubuntu, fucking done. A large amount of the population here wants to jump right into arch as soon as possible yet that trial by fire has been replaced with Manjaro and Antergos which are both easy as shit.

>>64705744I constantly shitpost on /g/ and always vouch for Arch for desktops and laptops, but not once have I said Ubuntu/Debian is bad for servers. In fact, I use Ubuntu for servers simply because of how stable it is compared to everything else.

>>64705802You do realize Photoshop can be run perfectly on Linux with Wine now, right? I didn't interrupt your cute little convo with him earlier as his main point was FOSS, but now you just hanged yourself, faggot.

>use this shitty thing that works unreliably after you spend forever trying to get it to work instead of the popular reliable thing that everybody else uses because it's better in this one weird way out of a thousandevery g meme

>>64705855>You do realize that the native environment of photoshop can be emulated on Linux now for worse performance and mysterious bugs and zero support from the developer?That's like playing a PS3 game on an emulator and getting mad at Sony when it crashes

>>64705966I mean, I run linux for shitposting and Facebook but seriously, what's the point in professional environments? You think you get credit for maintaining a shaky community-driven FLOSS system that doesn't officially support software you need to use?Escape the NEET mindset, anon. There are professional tools made closed source and binary distributable by corporations, and then you go home and you shoot up your Kali Linux and Pale Moon to shitpost on 4chan and watch cuckold porn. Freedom is one thing and having alternatives is great but Adobe tools are superior and even Adobe has gotten challenged now by Affinity, a more fairly priced image manipulation solution with a better license and equal capability.But GIMP is a joke and running Windows software thru Wine is ridiculous on 9 occasions out of 10. It's literally only warranted if you can't get your hands on a Windows license/installation.

>>64705685>content-aware scalingWhat a shitty meme. I have been regularly using Photoshop at my job for almost 2 years now and I have yet once found myself in a situation where Adobe's too-clever algorithm was actually useful.

>>64706057My point perhaps wasn't clear enough now that I come to it. What I mean is work is work and hobby is hobby. A restaurant uses a huge bulky industrial dishwasher, and you clock your time on it and you finish the days work and go home and there you can do whatever, wash them by hand or buy a washer of ranging prices and sizes but don't try to tell me handwashing is better when you need to do 200 plates an hour.

It's not, it really isnt. A buggy piece of shit mess after a year. No longevity. Had an iphone 5s for 3 years, not a single issue. Got an android phone, countless crashes, apps not opening, power downs, slow response times to touch, it's fucking shit.

>Apple is the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. iOS has been a(n admittedly limited) dream so far and MacBooks aren't so bad at all. There's still a lot of little things to get a little frustrated about but it's not the end of the world.

I keep on trying a bunch of Linux distributions because I really want to be able to suggest one to my friends but it's no use. All Linux distros are steaming piles of feces'.

>GNOME is bloated apparently>KDE is full of 1px scitzhofrehnia-tweaks that hide the useful configuration settings>XFCE is KDE but outdated>LXDE is XFCE but different>i3 is great because it has no functionalityBut I can't tell my friends they need to ditch their Windows machines for i3, can I?

>Ubuntu is spyware>Manjaro is for pussies who can't install Arch>Arch is for teenage bois who can't install Gentoo>Gentoo is for anti-social neckbearded anxiety-bags>Elementary is macOS but worse>Fedora is official NSA/FBI spyware>Void is hipster>Debian is obsolete and repositories are stone-agean>Alpine is for servers lol it's not a desktop os anon>CentOS is for servers lol why would u ever use a server os anon

But anon, all distros are the same, they're all (GNU/)Linux!Oh yes!>X.org tears and runs as root>Wayland will never be implemented and creates new problems that weren't there>audio overall is a fuck up>foss drivers are garbage while proprietary support is half-baked>configuration kills the man because all .conf files must be edited by hand, which leads to error and frustration >ALL (GNU especially) DOCUMENTATION IS GARBAGE or from the fifties>half-baked 3rd party binary distribution which leads to greater fear of platform all over>repositories and package managers are the implemented alternative but <your distro> is missing that one package you need and another six are outdated and lacking in already-implemented capabilities>also don't ever build from source anon do you want to end up witch a FRANKEN<distro>>you must learn bash and the common shell commands to fix your pc when it breaks or when you adventurously fuck up something>NO SYSTEM TO KEEP CONFLICTING DEPENDENCIES ISOLATED FROM EACH OTHER>systemd dominates

>>64705855No, it doesn't. Only Photoshop CS runs fine, Photoshop CS2 crashes sometimes and from there up it's hell.

>>64706057Depends on what you mean professional environment. Office? Painting? Animation? Simulations? Servers? Networks? First, Windows wins b/c MS Office. Second and third are equal between Windows, macOS and Linux. Photoshop isn't the only good player in town for more than a decade. All the rest go to Linux by far.

>GIMP is a jokeIt is fine for image editing and also script extendable. You're using it for image editing instead of drawing circles, right?

Holly fucking reddit, is this what /g/ has come to?>pic relatedI'm just gonna fucking get rid of 4chan all together, i've been abandoning boards left and right, but i never thought /g/ would come to that

>>64706574Tl;dr, skipped to the end>Holy shit just buy a Mac like I didI did, got the 2017 iMac 27" with a Kaby Lake, very comfy. I have no idea what to do with my old Gentoo machine but I don't wanna get rid of it. I put too much love into it.

>>64706606Proper points all around, I just got mad over this gigantic homosexual from earlier. I mean I have GIMP on all my machines usually because it's free. But all I'm saying is if another better alternative surfaced for free of charge I wouldn't care whether it was FOSS or not.

>>64706586Yeah. Literally the ONLY devices less repairable than Apple products are basically anything from the Surface line, especially Surface Laptops. You literally can't take them apart without totally destroying them. But that's fine, though, because they tend to last quite a while before failing.

>>64706819yeah. i convinced my gf to get a 2015 one instead of the Noports Emojibar Pro. i really like the 16:10 screen and the touchpad. nice as it is, i don't think i'll ever buy one for reasons you mentioned. i've transitioned from Windows to Linux and have no knowledge or interest in macOS. i also don't want to give Apple any more money. there are plenty other options out there.

>>64705268>>64705261>been unironically using Arch for more than 4 years now. >Can play the majority of games that I want.>100% of the developer tools out there are made with my use case in mind first and foremost.>Anything that isn't end user nonsense is tailor-made for me.

>>64705261>refurbished thinkpadWasted hours replacing the battery, heatsink, and paste, then it shit the bed a year later.>don't buy acerLiteral POS acer I bought to replace the thinkpad has lasted 3 years without issue.

>>64708185Dunno mine was simple as it can get.No disassembly traps,no bullshitSeparate external slots for HDD and RAM replacement as well as extra drive bay external available.I received it with louse keyboard ribbon cable because the screws weren't tight enough from the factory and the case was flexing.Put that shit back where it belongs and tightened the screws.No problems since then.

>>64708264Mine old was quite tricky, or I was retarded, dunno. I didn't knew that I have to remove keyboard first.But anyway, cheap laptops are usually the best and cheap to repair, and thinkpads are just black ideapads with nipple.Why do I need a roll cage, when fucking bottom case costs like 15-20$. And thinkpads keyboards are expensive, but here you can buy it for 10$ new, with any layout you want.And ironically, touchpads are not that bad, as on thinkpads.

>>64705261When I was like 10 years old, I fell for /g/ meme hard. I thought that I'd work in comfy cubicle, programming some good stuff, and I'd have enough money for any hardware and car, like my dad (he is an engineer)... But in result I have some SJW shit, open-space offices, and shitty stuff.

>>64705685>Working with GIMP is like working with two hands tied behind your back.Look at this photoshop baby who has lost the ability to learn something new. Guess what, after being used to gimp, PS feels exactly like that.

>It's really fundamental stuff like content-aware scaling, quick selection, selection edge refinement and heal brushingThose are all quick and dirty automated processes, that at best are a first step which you have to clean up manually. Except content aware scale, which is only used for memes.

>sheer productivity-increasing INTEGRATIONEven if there's no alternative to abode in video editing, their bloat and attempts to lock you to their suite isn't increasing productivity.

>>64705680>buy oneplus phone >it looks so similar to an iphone that normies get confused >when someone asks you about it tell him why you chose that phone >people will either think you have an iphone or know that you made a fact based decision It's a win-win in my book

>>64705296Apple is bad for the money but not all the timeLinux is good if you don't have a job or make it work for your jobChrome is botnet but on the other hand what isn't? If you haven't invest in a libreboot compatible system who even cares

A lot of Java code is bad. Way too many Indians writing buggy code and way too many "architects" refactor it to use an AbstractProxyManagerBeanFactory and other incomprehensible bullshit. If you can get past the fact that many shitty people are using Java and try to judge it objectively, it's not too bad of a language. Java will rarely throw surprises at you or have odd, unexpected behavior (string comparison with == being one exception). The tooling is amazing. Many great IDEs, static code analysis tools, etc. There are libraries for everything. If you can think of it, there is almost certainly a Java API for it.

As long as you don't worry about being shamed by smug users of other languages, you quickly realize that Java is pretty damn good at getting shit done. If that's what you care about and not being some smug asshole who writes blog posts on your "programming philosophy" and thinks the Unix guys are akin to Socrates and Aristotle, then Java isn't as bad as /g/ says. It lets you get shit done.

>>64705475No, I won 1st place and a $1,500 prize in a programming competition and they said do you want a Mac? I said no I want a nice ASUS Zenbook which I had gotten. Didn't boot into Windows once and installed Antergos instantly. Macs are terrible overpriced trash. For $1500 you will get a tiny, "dumb" screen, shitty battery, shitty cheap hardware, terrible operating system built by retards for retards, etc. I can go on and on. My PC has a 17" 4k touchscreen, 16 GB of ram, 500 GB SSD, backlit keyboard, Bang and Olufsen audio, i7, and many more. Macs are terrible unless you're a cuck who wastes their hard earned cash on shit made by slaves. Apple people really crack me up. They simply don't know anything about computers.

>>64714867Literally nothing, if you buy the right device. I'm on Mi5 + AEX Nougat (not on Oreo yet, nothing new besides white notification shade, plus nougat is rock solid) and it's easily the best device for the money if you're coming from something like a Nexus 5. I paid 200€ for a refreshed N5 basically (except it has 64GB and non shitty battery/speakers)

>>64705475im >>64705475hanging out at my parents place for the weekend, where i grew up and learned how to use computers. theres like 5 macbooks here and an imac. im using mint, all the gnu/linux distros are a million times better for what i want them for, but my family only wants their laptops to be easy enough for a gorilla to use and look pretty. if thats how you merit your computers then sure, but by pretty much any other means theyre a complete waste of time and productivity.

>>64705296They're worth it, if you go full autism and get something from Filco or Leopold. Expensive keyboards from Corsair, Razer and the likes might as well be the $40 chink-stuff that you see on amazon.

>been using Arch before I visited /g/ for the first time>bought a mechanical keyboard before I went to /g/ as wellAs for other things:>thinkpads (made me hate other laptops, now pointing stick is a must for me when picking a laptop)>GNU Emacs for editing stuff>programming socks>being girly>no DE (it's the only sane way to go, actually)>using C over C++>learnt a lisp>use an (overclocked) CRT for gaming

>>64721961Plasma 5 has evolved so much in the last few years it boggles my mind. It used to be a blated resource hog that crashed on a fresh install just opening the application menu. Now it uses the same amount of RAM as XFCE and is almost as stable.

>anyone in real life actually uses linshitI've yet to meet a single fucking person in real life that even knows how computers work, fucking forget about linux kernals. Its a miracle if they're even using a windows desktop rather than a 2010 macbook pro Air (tm) with a massively swollen battery or some bargain bin 300 dollar windows vista laptop "upgraded" to windows 8.1 "upgraded" to windows 10 with a 300gb hard disk bloated to shit with eight copies of norton antivirus running with expired mcafee and avg pinning the 5600 rpm hdd to 100% at all times. Bonus points if they have more than 2gb of ddr2, but I've only seen that once with 4gb of ddr3.

>>64705261>"The Nexus 5 is a solid phone that will be supported for years to come!">hardware starts having issues after a year>battery becomes shit after six months>audio subsystem is corrupted by Qualcomm so stock sound settings make everything sound like you're underwater, only available fix is pajeet patch from XDA>Google stops updating it after 18 months>2/3 of ROMs become vaporware after Lollipop is released, remaining devs just copy each other

>tfw literally at the mercy of XDA because your phone's manufacturer won't even stand by their work>tfw ditch Android for good and buy an iPhone

>>64706671>he didn't learn from the Nexus 4>he didn't learn from the Nexus 5>he didn't learn from the Nexus 6>he didn't learn from the Nexus 5X/6PNews flash. Google does NOT stand by their work. Shit on Apple all you want, but at least they will support their hardware for five years minimum (DoD standard, since the Army buys iPhones).